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post on TikTok showing purported election results of five of the candidates in Uganda’s Kawempe North by-election
Publisher’s rating: False
image featured in a TikTok video showing Faridah Nambi, a flagbearer for the ruling party in the Kawempe North by-election, displaying a ballot paper with a vote for an opponent
Publisher’s rating: Altered
Says Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “engaged in election interference by campaigning” in Pennsylvania for former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Publisher’s rating: False
Ce post Facebook prétendant que le Secrétaire général de l’Organisation des Nations unies, António Guterres, a démenti les allégations de Laurent Gbagbo, selon lesquelles l’ONU a écrit aux autorités ivoiriennes pour exiger sa réinscription sur la liste électorale
Publisher’s rating: False
The EU barred far-right candidate Călin Georgescu from Romanian presidential election re-run.
Publisher’s rating: False
2025年千葉県知事選の投票率は17%
Publisher’s rating: 誤り
post on X (formerly Twitter) claiming the National Resistance Movement party flag bearer, Faridah Nambi, was declared the winner of the March 2025 Kawempe North by-election
Publisher’s rating: False
image on X (formerly Twitter) claiming to show Elias Nalukoola, a candidate in the Kawempe North by-election with a ballot paper ticked in favour of his opponent
Publisher’s rating: Altered
"Pro-US/Trump political party won Greenland's election last night. The people of Greenland want to end European colonial rule and build a future with America"
Publisher’s rating: False
The review says the opposition Demokraatit Party won the election but favored a gradual path to independence, not US control. It also reports that polls found only 6% of Greenlanders wanted the island to become part of the US, while 85% opposed it.
Wolodymyr Selenskyj weigere sich dagegen, in der Ukraine Wahlen abzuhalten.
Publisher’s rating: Falsch. Laut ukrainischer Verfassung sind Wahlen ausgesetzt, bis wieder Frieden herrscht.
Carolina Tohá: “Confío que el pueblo chileno agradecerá la excelente labor en temas de seguridad eligiéndome como la nueva presidente de Chile”: #Falso
Publisher’s rating: Falso
Video shows “Stacey Abrams admits the $2 billion Joe Biden’s EPA gave her was used to buy votes of people in Georgia by purchasing them new appliances.”
Publisher’s rating: False
According to the voter list published by the Election Commission of India, a man named ‘Ramkamal Das’ in Uttar Pradesh has 43 sons, all of whom live in the same house.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The voter list was from the 2023 Varanasi Municipal Corporation election, not an Election Commission of India voter list. The review says disciples of Swami Ramkamal Das Vedanti listed their Guru as their father under the Guru-Shishya tradition; 48 voters, not 43, were listed under his name at the address. [S1]
post on X (formerly Twitter) claiming that Hanifa Karadi has dropped out of the Kawempe North by-election
Publisher’s rating: False
ఇటీవల జరిగిన 2025 అసెంబ్లీ సమావేశంలో “మేము మీతో పొత్తు పెట్టుకోకుంటే మాకు ఇంకో 15 సీట్లు ఎక్కువ వచ్చేవి” అని ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ ముఖ్యమంత్రి చంద్రబాబు నాయుడు బీజేపీని విమర్శిస్తున్న వీడియో.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
digital card with the Kenyans.co.ke logo and a quote from senior advisor, Council of Economic Advisors at State House, Moses Kuria, purportedly admitting to stealing votes
Publisher’s rating: Fake
Video shows President Donald Trump admitting he became president because of a “rigged” 2024 election.
Publisher’s rating: False
"Sie haben die Wahlen manipuliert, und ich wurde Präsident."
Publisher’s rating: Irreführend
DW says Trump’s reference to election manipulation concerned his false 2020 election-fraud allegations, while “I became president” referred to his 2024 victory. The review says he used that sequence to imply that he should have won in 2020 and would now be president during the World Cup and Olympics.
Wahlbetrug mit Ansage: Schon an Tag 1 wirft Merz alle Wahlversprechen über Bord, will die Grenzen nicht mehr schließen (...).
Publisher’s rating: Falsch. Friedrich Merz hatte vor der Bundestagswahl nicht versprochen, die deutschen Grenzen zu schließen.
Incumbent Caloocan City Mayor Along Malapitan has a voter preference rate of +75% while his opponent, former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, has a rate of -22%.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading